About Me

Hi! My name is Liz and I am the shopkeeper for Brown & Hopkins in Chepachet, RI!
I am the mom to two awesome boys, Sam, 21 and Kevin, 18....Where does the time go??
I recently married my soulmate, Bruce, and we are busy decorating our new home in Putnam, CT. Well, what I mean is, I am decorating and he is hanging the stuff where I tell him, oops, I meant ask him....LOL In my spare time...LOL, I rarely have any spare time! But when I am not ordering stuff for the store, balancing the checkbook, displaying merchandise, or working on the blog, facebooking and marketing for the store, I enjoy gardening, decorating, cooking, socializing with friends and family and trying new restaurants! I hope you enjoy the Brown & Hopkins Blog! Please comment if you like it, or I have made you smile.....or even if I've made you mad...I want to hear it all!

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

A few weeks ago we were visited by the 3rd graders at a local elementary school when they had a field trip. The theme was "Hometown Tour", and they visited the police and fire station, the library, the town hall....and Brown & Hopkins!!!!!

The kids each received a little bag of candy, a wooden nickel valid for a free bag of candy when they visit us with a parent, and a post card of the store.

My sister is the art teacher at their school, and when they were told that her and I are sisters, one child innocently asked, "Are you twins????", which is quite amusing, since we look nothing alike and are over 10 years apart!!! I think he aksed that because if you close your eyes, and hear us speaking, we sound alike!!

Here are some excerpts from some of the thank you cards I received........

"You are very nice and your sister rocks! I want to own a candy store when I grow up!" Ethan

"It was very intresting that the shop was 201 years old. They must have yoused super strong wood when they built it." Logan

"Maby I will be a storekeeper like you someday." Julia

Well, I hope someone will want to be the next B & H shopkeeper, so I can retire someday!

I must agree,BUT,she wasn't aware that I have also been busyupdating our Brown & Hopkins Facebook page.I am quite addicted to Facebook,but I guess there are worse things to be addicted to!Who remembers the Seinfeld episode whereGeorge is dating this woman who he can't seem to get rid of,so he starts smoking because he knows she doesn't like it?Well, that's kind of me...."I am on Facebook....and I can't stop now...I'm addicted!!!!!!!"!!!!It is soooooo easy to snap a photoand upload it to Facebook to show you what just came in!With the blog, it's a bit more time consuming.However, I promise, I will try to get back to a little more bloggingto keep the non-facebook folks in the loop!

With that bring said,

here are a few photos of new arrivals!

Lots of the Red ~ White & Blue!!!

Gorgeous light weight rose handbags...just $24.95 each!

My two great nieces who are in TX modeled their newB & H tie-dye sundresses!Available in sizes for one year olds up to 4 year olds!

Stay tuned for more updates!!! Oh, and don't forget...we will be closed on the Fourth of July!!!Happy Summer Everyone!!!!!